James Halliday - Wine Companion 2016
This label is certain to grace some of the greatest Aus Pinots and Chardonnays in the years ahead, the vineyard (planted in '88) a Tasmanian jewel. The most remarkable part of this wine is its combination of finesse, length and intensity of varietal fruit flavour, in turn based on the laser etching of Tasmanian acidity. Screwcap.Score: 97 points

Tyson Stelzer - WBM - Nov/Dec 2015
Capturing Chardonnay in all of its complexity within a style of cool climate tension and elegance can be a difficult balance, which ithis vintage achieved with consummate finesse. An engaging expression of the tension and precision of southern Tasmanian Chardonnay, with fine, mineral acidity lingering very long on a well-focused finish.Score: 96 points

Mike Bennie - WineFront - 25 June 2015
Revisit today. Geez the wine takes some taming. The take home is searing acidity. It's become a juicier wine, but that acid line is unnervingly blistering. It's refreshing, no doubt, brisk, tight, lean, but not in the struck match/sulphides and water mould, there's some flavour. Perfume is still in the flint, stone, green herbs, citrus mould, but feels fancy. Dart-shaped across the palate, the barely-there fruit flavours really linger though, even though the wine is still lean. In a better place, now.Score: 93 points

Nick Bulleid MW - Chardonnay Panel Tasting - Gourmet Traveller WINE - February 2015
2013 Tolpuddle gained strong points from Hooke. "Shy fruit and faint reduction," he said. "Quite Chablis-like, appealing and mineral. A very interesting nose. Tight, restrained, delicate but penetraing and long. Young and backward. Big potential. Lees and creaminess. Complex, building on the aftertaste." The wine's complex with lemon and some funkiness sitting in a fine, taut structure. It has a lovely intensity and length, and should develop well over many years.

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front - 17 November 2014
Smells good. Smells like fine wine. There's a light coverlet of spicy oak, green twigs, honey and flowers, white peach and citrus & subdued and classy. Some banana showing as a young wine. Palate is light, lemony and tight, in the style of very modern Australian Chardonnay/Chablis kind of thing, but without the struck match and funk. Some honeyed gloss to the texture, but the acidity belts through it making it very dry and crunchy: it's the first and last impression. Acid. Stern and uncompromising. Has length. Has finesse. Needs time, or perhaps a week or two more on the vine.

Winsor Dobbin - Launceston Sunday Examiner - 16 November 2014
While the 2012 Tolpuddle was all about purity and precision, this pushes the boundaries a little further in terms of texture and richness, while retaining the essence of quality fruit at its core. This has terrific structure and palate interest with the 30% new oak still just playing a support role to the high-quality cool-climate fruit. There is a firm acid backbone and impressive length along with the concentrated white stone fruit and grapefruit notes. A brilliant partner for roast suckling pig.

Alan Hunter - Courier Mail, Brisbane - 15 November 2014
The second release of this Coal River Valley (south-eastern Tasmania) chardonnay is starting to paint a picture of vineyard integrity. A plump middle palate of ripe fruit is shaped by mouth-watering acidity. Subtle sulphide and oak nuances add layers of interest.Score: 95/100

Source
Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay is entirely from the Tolpuddle Vineyard, first planted in 1988. In 2013, standout parcels were selected from blocks3, 5, 11 and 16 for this first release of Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay.

Vinification
The grapes were all hand'picked, whole bunch pressed and fermented in French oak barriques, of which one'third were new, and the balance second use and third use barrels. Only minimal malolactic fermentation,so the freshness of the natural aciditywas retained.

Maturation
The wine spent eight months in barrel with gentle stirring as required, then a further two months in tank on lees prior to bottling

Vintage notes:
By Tasmanian standards 2013 was relatively warm and dry with low yields and good flavour concentration.

Winemakers comments:
Style
Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay reflects the cool maritime climate of Tasmania's Coal River Valley, and the site itself is gently sloping, north--'east facing, with light silica over sandstone. The result is fine and precise Chardonnay with a backbone of firm acidity, and a combination of lightness of texture, and intensity of flavour.2013 Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay
On the nose there are hints of citrus and white flowers and on the palate the power and class shine through. A spine of crisp acidity is accompanied by great flavour through the line of the palate. There is a subtlety but also great concentration, and a purity that bodes well for cellaring.

Your favourite recipe for this wine:
Pan-fried scallops

History
In 1988, local farmers the Casimaty family joined forces with two of Australia's foremost wine business trailblazers, Garry Crittenden and Tony Jordan, to plant a vineyard to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The vineyard was called Tolpuddle, and it took its name from the Tolpuddle Martyrs, whose reward for starting England's first agrarian union was to be deported to Australia. The leader of the group, George Loveless, served part of his sentence working on a property near Richmond called GlenAyr, part of which is now Tolpuddle Vineyard.